> As a privacy conscious user I typically don't mind the former, but despise the latter. Mozilla does not appear to distinguish between these two cases. One cou

> As a privacy conscious user I typically don't mind the former, but despise the latter. Mozilla does not appear to distinguish between these two cases. One could argue that the former is still increasing the scope of data being hacked, or that companies might breach their contracts and use it anyway, but if you assume illegality then most of this breaks down anyway You have to assume not necessarily blatant illegal behavior, but instead a slow stretching of the law. There is huge financial motivation for a company to switch a data pipeline from the former use case to the latter. Those incentives will push them towards changing the fine print or creative interpretations of that fine print, or will get them acquired by a more profitable, less scrupulous company willing to do so. Look at the incentives, and that will tell you what the outcomes will eventually be. The only way to avoid this is either not sharing the data in the first place, or sharing the data only after it's encrypted so that the service provider cannot help but treat it as owned by the original service. Anything else is fighting a losing battle.